Jumbo Crossword - 155

Tuesday, November 06, 2018

ACROSS:
1 Deep science (10)
6 Cry isn't quite the most intense (5)
10 Begin a Brussels development (6)
16 Unusual combination of artist and engineer (4)
18 Cry of a yes man ? (4)
19 Before being over the house (5)
21 Speed at which Russian fighters go from one country to another? (7)
24 Opening for a photographer perhaps (8)
26 Turn endlessly and softly, but in haste (8)
27 Organ some times augmented by a trumpet (3)
28 Basics of broadcasting - Australian style (3)
30 Poet Eliot, with vow to make comeback (5)
32 When topless ate a meal (3)
33 Prune ends for a change ? (4)
35 If going north, live in a warm spot (8)
37 Remains to trouble ship's canvas (8)
38 Parade-ground command is a joke (2,4)
39 Within reason one tolerates such a piece of music (5)
41 Something fluid in what a little star might do (3)
42 Daniel after removing a gun from African (7)
45 Take part in tribal sacrifice in a wood (5)
46 The real integer is three to begin with (3)
48 Head gear that’s the the last word in fruit (7)
50 Charleville centre makes little money for Bulgarians (3)
52 What you bring up at last ? (3,4)
53 Excitement flourished at the old city near the railway (6)
56 Customers put half their lire into small change (7)
57 Parliamentary officer threatening the bar (5,3)
59 An endless deception by someone Asian perhaps (3)
62 Backward turn from an Indian (5)
64 Fuel slump shows up (3)
65 Old church worker full of energy beginning to agitate -- too anxious to please? (9)
67 Make a noise like a cat in some way (3)
69 More aged tree (5)
70 Wherein witches give a bloke a new start (5)
71 Have some sense (4)
72 Rolf is back with a woman (5)
74 With the deference to that pedestrian style (4)
75 What one did with the highland fling ? (6)
76 Say furiously, "get the surface smooth." (4)
78 Wild dog in dog compound (5)
79 That blooming beast has got the sail in a mess (6)
82 Dash into Hilton Hotel and make a booking (4)
84 Tree indicating pyorrhea? (3-3)
86 Put a screw back and make a second design (6)
88 North Briton hears the wind (4)
89 Contend with an involved situation (6)
90 Variety of gnu put in as cattle (5)
92 Constantly worries for a barbecued sausage (4)
94 Much more actively on the job assorting rubies (6)
95 Food served in here at suppertime (4)
96 Radon not in turmoil (5)
97 Heard he left one captive without water (4)
99 Charlatans first injure with an amulet (5)
101 Composer is not for our eyes (5)
103 Girl possibly not seen often (3)
104 Bird with a price on its head ? (6-3)
107 Figure it's not the gross return (3)
108 To concur when eager to be otherwise (5)
110 Do auditors partially belong to this organization ? (3)
111 Weakened wall boy removed from submarine design (8)
113 Gift-cum-gifted playwright (7)
116 Old cup for a little mouth perhaps (6)
118 I meet pa for a snack (4,3)
121 Sat around with former service women ? (3)
123 She's good-looking grenade (7)
125 One might adopt this over the Ouse, initially by instinct (3)
126 Quiet, the drink may turn to stone ! (5)
127 Longing to redevelop this art (7)
129 Certify it's all right by issuing this ? (3)
131 Tiara ensnared with which lasso (5)
133 Disreputable type taken in hand by rodent exterminator (6)
135 Coal rise affected heating units (8)
138 Rabble-rousing has left me with an old doggy bag (8)
141 Fur with central deficiency going cheap (4)
142 Greek character measuring the pressure ? (3)
144 Relieve a boy with a song, perhaps (5)
146 International body may look into unopened letters to begin with (3)
148 Bird given in shabby exchange (3)
149 Trick may have drawn Maid Marian (8)
151 It's clerically assumed by one who goes into service (8)
155 Trips around Central Europe for arms parts (7)
156 Smartly avoid Oriental duel, perhaps ? (5)
157 Laze around to express devotion (4)
158 Minerals found in the forest (4)
159 Meryl and Peter's conversion (6)
160 Sarcastic these days with the nymph (5)
161 Spectators who don't sit about (10)

DOWN:
2 As wine it comes up to a blend of China (7)
3 Smallest rise you can get the water of the Rhine apparently (4)
4 She has something to say before dinner (5)
5 Make a noise when you have to give money up (3)
6 A lady's man by the year's end (3)
7 Promissory note given in rather curious circumstances ? (3)
8 Sort of orgy that may give one a turn (4)
9 Pays attention when he is with newspaper chiefs (5)
11 Division by two, happily (5,4)
12 Functional spy (9)
13 Badly run vessel (3)
14 I make a substitution in repeating idle talk (6,6)
15 Attempt to get more the second time around (3,5)
17 What the seer has at the back (6)
20 Quietly left citizen of Gdansk for cheer (3)
21 Same difference atop a mountain ? (4)
22 René began to cook a vegetable (5,4)
23 Asian people found in retail (3)
25 Not now the capital of Norway (4)
26 Unusable section of country (3)
29 Another name for Bond - right ? Fleming ? (5)
31 From capital, youngsters see the country (5)
34 City: a dark confusion (5)
35 Reactionary has a bitter dispute with middle-class left (6)
36 Entertaining duck ? (6)
40 Time to outlaw such a ski-lift (1-3)
43 Accommodation for a runner (6)
44 They supply information form the ranks (5)
47 After it, chef yet displayed an urge to travel (5,4)
49 Is sun able to create such masses in the sky ? (7)
51 But soft! The bird has landed (9)
53 Not a natural month for an urgent journey (6,5)
54 Split about four on the inside (4)
55 Beam back my local friend (3)
56 Company in America ? Yes, they say so ! (3)
58 Found fault with new red cap (6)
60 Inclined to show bias (6)
61 Low order of animal but very wise (3)
63 Upset caused by greed and corruption (8)
65 Hot spot in which one's worried about victory (4)
66 Backing drivers try to steer clear of (11)
68 ... a bit of free riesling would be just as disturbing (5)
71 Signalling one's getting tired? (8)
73 None competed in N. Africa (4)
77 Her pub got disorderly when purchased ahead of requirements (3-6)
80 City street at the end (4)
81 Ran down and around dried up land (9)
83 The boy who has the French right on railways (5)
85 How much does this republic make from this structure with a penguin's tail and an eagle's head? (6)
87 Bacon’s form is very much less circumspect (6)
91 In the hedge another wild cherry (4)
93 Plus one bloke is found in an Asian sea (7)
97 Half a second is all it takes to see him (3)
98 A pious cousin, I recollect, lost a ring. So unlucky! (12)
100 Aromatic plant in another bed (4)
102 The feelings are hard for the figures in a turn (6)
105 Absence of water initially at the present time (3)
106 A month, in short which is a bit naughty (3)
107 African tribesman wears shirt under a new suit (5)
109 For cutting discount, being unprincipled (9)
111 Make effervescent return after a disastrous tea (6)
112 He's guarding against sickness starting on the way in (6)
114 Not so quick to catch a pair of fellows making a bloomer (9)
115 A nice one lost after Russia returns without one guarantee (9)
117 Not altogether clear about (4)
119 Point explosives out in camp ! (5)
120 Make out with quiet woman after start of month (8)
122 Sack the Spanish roll (5)
124 Sell the dummy - touchdown possible (3,2)
128 Interfere with member in applying rate differential (6)
130 Remade replica - but more than one is required for measuring (7)
132 The way to put on extra, by the sound of it, into mine (4)
134 Becomes a holy man for example on retirement (4)
136 Sort of uninitiated cheat (3)
137 Delivered into the rainy-day account ? (5)
139 Being spirited the man surrounds the backward saint (5)
140 Make journey, ticket initially received (3)
143 The sun has got round to the seat (3)
145 Period in which the affirmative is right (4)
147 Foreigner helping quickly to administer a knockout (4)
150 Killer did lose heart and got cross (3)
152 Begin suspecting like you're clever (3)
153 No rocker in charge of the armed forces (3)
154 Sort of bill that upset Ben (3)

Aries (Mar 21 - Apr 20)You are likely to remain careful and watchful today, foretells Ganesha. And because you'll be invited to parties and other social events, your enthusiasm will remain buoyant. You will also strike the right balance between business and pleasure, says Ganesha.